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...A significant moment was seeing the Velázquez portrait of Juan de Pareja (1650) as an adolescent. “I had an epiphany,” he says....
...Diego Velázquez painted Juan de Pareja in 1650, muting all signs of rank and class so that, despite his dark skin, he became unplaceable in the social order....
...Paintings such as Juan Carreño de Miranda’s frothy, rococo “The Immaculate Conception” were sent to Mexico and widely copied, spreading Catholic messages and teaching European styles....
...A week later, José Carlos Acevedo, long-serving mayor of the city of Pedro Juan Caballero, was killed outside a municipal building, months after his niece Belén Acevedo was assassinated....
...The young Kenyan-British painter based the nude seen from the back, a sumptuous sweeping curve of black flesh, on Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus”....
...Ekseption, Calle de Velázquez 28, 28001 (ekseption.es). El Corte Inglés, Plaza del Callao 2, 28013 (elcorteingles.com). El Parque del Buen Retiro, Plaza de la Independencia 7, 28001 (esmadrid.com)....
...Juan José Méndez, the city’s transport secretary, is taking on what he calls the “kings of the asphalt”, his term for cars....
...Rivera Velazquez, 37 Luis Daniel Conde, 39 Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25...
...Many of los velazqueños were convincing, skilful painters: Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo and Juan Carreño de Miranda, in particular, depicted Philip’s widow and their youngest, crippled, imbecile son Charles...
...An elegy on Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz is addressed to long-dead Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, with Berger “acting as a postman between two dead men”....
...The royal portrait, for centuries the ultimate commission for artists from Holbein to Velázquez, has become a much-neglected genre of late....
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...Velázquez took it with him when he left Seville for Madrid, where it was acquired by his friend Don Juan de Fonseca....
...Top lot is “Portrait of Juan López de Robredo” by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), considered the greatest Spanish painter of his time....
...Neither Francisco Franco, the late dictator, nor the current King Juan Carlos can be accused of being overly generous with dukedoms or marquisates, and not everyone advertises them....
...A Goya royal portrait in a private collection is exceptional; most were absorbed into the Prado, as were those of Velázquez, who is not represented here....
...There are a few early paintings by Velázquez in the show but, apart from the penetrating portraits of Juan Martínez Montañés and Reverend Mother Jerónima de la Fuente, they are not a patch on the Zurbaráns...
...In “Portrait of Juan Martínez Montañés”, Velázquez daringly depicts the sculptor at work on an unfinished bust of Philip IV....
...Whether or not Velázquez painted any of the polychromed figures that survive from the time is, frustratingly, unknown....
...Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz once left the Prado after viewing “Las Meninas” with the remark: “Now we go to have a real Spanish lunch, but they stay: and that is the terror of Spanish painting!”...
...It still cherishes the Siglo de Oro, the 16th and 17th centuries of Cervantes, Velázquez and imperial conquest in South America....
...The artist Juan Muñoz (1953-2001) enjoyed a profound relationship with Britain, and with the Tate....
...Juan Pantoja de la Cruz’s 1605 version of Charles is, in fact, Titian’s, right down to the Emperor’s amiable, crooked smile....
...As painted by Velázquez, they attain a certain dignity....
...Jordan’s Juan van der Hamen y Leon (Yale £50) introduces a dazzling colourist, a contemporary of Velazquez, long-overshadowed and on show in Madrid. Russia!...
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